The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106143   Message #2192977
Posted By: Brendy
13-Nov-07 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: folksingers who quit,and why?
Subject: RE: folksingers who quit,and why?
There could well be, TheSnail.

But Guinness, The Irish Pub Company, Derry Bros., and all the rest of the companies that build 'Irish Pubs' in Europe, base them on that style of pub that is well known around Dublin City Centre; The Palace, Oliver St.John Gogarty, etc., not a hypothetical Norwegian theme pub.

I hope there will be a Norsk pub/restaurant open in Dublin. Lutefisk has to be truly eaten to be truly believed, and imagine all the Elk & reindeer (with Juniper berries + viltsaus) that is in season right now...

I find that when Irish people are in charge of an 'Irish Pub', they run the place a bit differently from the bandwagon-jumper-on-ers, that just want Whiskey in the Jar all the time.
they think this is the road to success....

If there are enough of these venues to support you, then happy days...

Café Dublin is a metamorphosis. I played at the opening of the first pub on that site (Dirty Nellies - Norwegian millionaire owned it).
That was 1996.
I played there a few times after that until I decided that I didn't need that kind of venue anymore.

Fergus took it over a few years back with a no-bullshit attitude; cleaned the place out, developed the restaurant, and pulls Guinness properly...., and insists his staff do the same.

I like tryers.
I can't stand chancers.

B.